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To: Thinkin' Gal

I bid 500 Quatloos!


23 posted on 10/24/2004 9:49:37 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("A bad peace is even worse than war" -Taticus)
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To: Dallas59; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe; hellinahandcart
Wasn't "Christopher Pike" married to some old gal on General Hospital, but then died in a "tragic home accident"?

Wow, I was able to find it on Google merely with the keywords Christopher Pike + General Hospital:

During the next several years, he acted in several films in Europe and Asia. After a whirlwind courtship, Hunter married actress Emily McLaughlin on February 4, 1969. She is best known for her role as Nurse Jessie Brewer on the ABC soap opera "General Hospital" from 1963 until her death in 1990.

With his career on hold, Hunter desperately lobbied to be cast as Mike Brady for the TV series "The Brady Bunch." Producer Sherwood Schwartz would not consider him as he thought him to be "too good looking to be an architect." Ironically, Hunter died just months before the show premiered in 1969.

While in Spain to film the Chicago Mafia story, Viva América! (1969), Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion, suffering facial lacerations from broken glass and powder burns. Later, an old friend, a former British Commando, accidentally hit Hunter on the chin with a Karate chop when Hunter, who knew judo, failed to defend himself in time. Then, while on the plane with his wife returning to the United States, Hunter's right arm suddenly became semi-paralysed and he lost the power of speech. He was taken directly off the plane upon landing, to a hospital in Los Angeles. An examination showed that a vertebra in his neck was out of place. He was released after a couple of weeks. Shortly after signing to co-star with Vince Edwards in The Desperados (1969), Hunter suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while on a short flight of steps in his living room, and collapsed, injuring his head in the fall. He was found unconscious an unknown length of time later. He died, without regaining consciousness, the following day, following surgery to repair the skull fracture, at age 42.

http://www.obituariestoday.com/Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?Obituary_ID=30063&section=pin

27 posted on 10/24/2004 9:57:35 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (RE)
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To: Dallas59
That gal who played Kirk's romantic interest in the "quatloos" episode ... here let me google for a minute ... anyway, she used to parade around topless at Star Trek conventions!

Her name was Angelique Pettijohn. She was Kirk's Drill Thrall.


31 posted on 10/24/2004 10:34:59 PM PDT by big time major leaguer
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